The Reverend Dr. José Ramon Irizarry will be inaugurated as Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary’s next president on March 31, 2023, at University Presbyterian Church, Austin. After a national search he was elected by the Board of Trustees to the presidency on June 27 and began his tenure on August 22, 2022. A native of Puerto Rico, he is the first non-white individual to hold this position over Austin Seminary’s 121-year history.